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- Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:42 pm
- Forum: Other Sports/Olympics
- Topic: Paris Olympics 2024
- Replies: 139
- Views: 4223
Re: Paris Olympics 2024
I would think we will find it hard to match or exceed previous Games performance. We seem to have regressed in wrestling, weightlifting and hockey, so we could end up with 3 less medals than last time. Only in shooting we seem to be doing better than last time, but we all know what finally ends up h...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:42 pm
- Forum: Tennis Tournaments
- Topic: ITF W35 Gurugram, Nagpur, Indore- Feb 26-March 17, 2024
- Replies: 51
- Views: 2274
Re: ITF W35 Gurugram, Nagpur, Indore- Feb 26-March 17, 2024
Well if Shrivalli could defeat a 175 ranked player with the loss of only 3 games, then this win is not totally unexpected. It would just seem that she is on the way to being our next big thing (after Sania)
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:38 pm
- Forum: Other Sports/Olympics
- Topic: Sports and Performance Enhancing Drugs (Doping)
- Replies: 817
- Views: 156846
Re: Sports and Performance Enhancing Drugs (Doping)
So the Chinese state machinery has become an expert in how to avoid getting caught, but the Russians are still not there?
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 6:07 pm
- Forum: Other Sports/Olympics
- Topic: Indian Boxing Thread
- Replies: 1026
- Views: 190338
Re: Indian Boxing Thread
Since Amit won gold in Strandja tournament and was our only boxer to do so, I would be inclined to select Amit as he seems to be in good form. Also there might have been bias in why Deepak was earlier selected in place of Amit since that process is not objective/data driven and Amit may have fallen ...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 12:26 am
- Forum: Other Sports/Olympics
- Topic: Indian Boxing Thread
- Replies: 1026
- Views: 190338
Re: Indian Boxing Thread
Nishant lost in the quota spot bout, thereby ending our miserable campaign. I think our male boxers are quite hopeless, but hopefully they let Amit Panghal compete in the final qualification event, he is the only one with a chance.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:11 pm
- Forum: The Cricket Forum
- Topic: Indian domestic cricket/ players
- Replies: 2798
- Views: 307977
Re: Indian domestic cricket/ players
It is unfortunate for Thakur that the seam friendly pitches we produce for our domestic games, we don't use similar ones for our international matches and hence Thakur doesn't come in the team reckoning. Thakur can be handful in SENA countries and occasionally in WI-SL as well (depending on the pitc...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 1:19 am
- Forum: The Cricket Forum
- Topic: England in India 2024-25 : The Pataudi Trophy
- Replies: 541
- Views: 9221
Re: England in India 2024-25 : The Pataudi Trophy
I think the selectors did a good job in introducing in-form and young players such as Jurel, Sarfaraz, Akash Deep and Paddikal. However they also took a few missteps along the way in the form of Patidar and Mukesh Kumar. Another player I was hoping to be selected is Ricky Bhui. Saurabh Kumar should ...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 5:50 am
- Forum: The Cricket Forum
- Topic: England in India 2024-25 : The Pataudi Trophy
- Replies: 541
- Views: 9221
Re: England in India 2024-25 : The Pataudi Trophy
I don't understand why few people are unhappy with Patidar being dropped. Does anyone really think he would have scored any runs? Would you rather have just 10 players in the team?
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 3:25 am
- Forum: Other Sports/Olympics
- Topic: Indian Boxing Thread
- Replies: 1026
- Views: 190338
Re: Indian Boxing Thread
We made a big mistake not selecting Amit Phangal in place of Deepak (same mistake for Asian Games as well). He is the best male boxer and the only one with a realistic chance of qualification. I hope the selectors rectify their mistake for the next qualification tournament.
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 12:08 am
- Forum: The Cricket Forum
- Topic: England in India 2024-25 : The Pataudi Trophy
- Replies: 541
- Views: 9221
Re: England in India 2024-25 : The Pataudi Trophy
Gill was already a match winner the last time we toured Australia, and he also contributed to our solitary test win in RSA. The place he had a really tough time was in ENG, and I think that his relative success in RSA and new found confidence will help him do better in ENG as well.
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:46 pm
- Forum: The Cricket Forum
- Topic: T20 World Cup, W.Indies/USA 2024
- Replies: 167
- Views: 3780
Re: T20 World Cup, W.Indies/USA 2024
The problem is that often, it is not as black and white and then you have to take other factors into consideration. Things being roughly equal wrt IPL performances, I would pick Jurel because of the mental toughness and match-winning capability he demonstrated.
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:32 am
- Forum: The Cricket Forum
- Topic: England in India 2024-25 : The Pataudi Trophy
- Replies: 541
- Views: 9221
Re: England in India 2024-25 : The Pataudi Trophy
Who in their right mind selected Patidar for this game? That we got 17 runs out of him should be considered a bonus. Paddikal or whoever is next in line should be no worse.
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 4:48 am
- Forum: The Cricket Forum
- Topic: England in India 2024-25 : The Pataudi Trophy
- Replies: 541
- Views: 9221
Re: England in India 2024-25 : The Pataudi Trophy
I was quite disappointed the selectors/team management didn't select Jaiswal for the ODI WC (and instead selected him for the unimportant Asian Games tournament). As we can well see, he is a match winner across all formats and he could well have got us over the hump in place of just an average Gill ...
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:40 pm
- Forum: The TableTennis Forum
- Topic: Indian Table Tennis Thread ...
- Replies: 460
- Views: 78490
Re: Indian Table Tennis Thread ...
These 2 matches I think are crucial to finishing #2 in the group, and hence getting a slightly weaker opponent in the last 32 round.
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 7:45 pm
- Forum: The Cricket Forum
- Topic: Afghanistan in India T20I series, 2024
- Replies: 113
- Views: 2735
Re: Afghanistan in India T20I series, 2024
Once again this match showed the ineffectiveness of our bowling attack. Our bowling attack cannot even defend a decent total against the minnows, how do we expect it to do so against AUS or ENG in a high stakes game; and this will again cause us to bow out in a World Cup when we are batting first. A...